Food for the people

After talking about the business, Qiao Yu led Qiao Ling to leave and went home. The man left a few words, and seeing Qiao Yu insisted, he sent them out.

After turning around the alley of Liu Qiaoshou's house, Qiao Yu turned around and asked Qiao Ling, "Is this Liu Qiaoshou and your father an old acquaintance? They have a good relationship?"

Qiao Ling nodded and shook his head again: "Acquaintances are acquaintances, but they are not close but just ordinary. My father said that this person is too shrewd and slippery to be close friends."

Qiao Yu nodded, "It's really not a fuel-efficient lamp. Fortunately, we don't have anything to discuss deeply. No matter how others don't comment, the technology is good. When the things are ready, we can pay as much as we need to pay. , if it is not necessary, it is better not to deal with this kind of person."

Qiao Ling is not old enough, and he is far less accurate than Qiao Yu in judging people, so he doesn't know where Qiao Yu's evaluation comes from, but he doesn't ask too much, since Qiao Yu has spoken, it must be what his brother said. up.

On the other side, Qiao Yu and Qiao Ling walked out of Liu Qiaoshou's house with their front feet, and a woman in a green skirt and flower jacket walked out of the main room in the backyard with her back feet, and asked questions as she walked towards the front door with a full moon belly : "Who came to the house just now?"

Liu Qiao was standing in the main room looking at the blueprint Qiao Yu left behind. Hearing this, she walked quickly to the woman, supported her with both hands and said, "Look at you, don't rest in the room. What are you doing here, what if you hurt my son?"

The woman stared at her eyes: "I was suffocated to death in the room, and the only thing in your heart is your son."

Liu Qiaoshou quickly smiled and said: "Where is it, if there is no son from where?"

The woman said angrily, "That's about the same. I'm asking you a question. Who came to the house just now?"

Liu Qiao held the woman's belly carefully, and replied: "The son of Qiao Wenjiang who was unlucky and died a year ago."

The woman frowned when she heard the words: "The poor one who sold his property and family business and moved to West Street? What are they doing at our house? They didn't come to borrow money, right? Let me tell you, if you don't borrow money, it will cost you a penny." None."

Liu Qiao shook her head: "Don't worry, I know, but these two boys didn't come here to borrow money, but asked me to make something for them."

The woman was as meticulous as a hair, and immediately caught the question she cared about and asked, "What about the money? How is Qiao's family ruined? Do you still dare to take their jobs? Will you pay for them?"

Liu Qiao nodded the woman's head, "You only have money in your eyes, you can rest assured that the money will not be short, the boss of his family is a pedantic scholar who only knows how to read sage books, his bones are more important than his life, his father died I have never talked to anyone before, and now I will be short of your money. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the Qiao family can't even afford this money? What's more, the blueprint they gave me today is comparable to That money is much more interesting.”

After speaking, he carefully took out the drawing that Qiao Yu gave him from his arms, spread it out in front of the woman for her to see.

How could the woman understand this kind of thing? She glanced at it casually, then turned her gaze aside in a lack of interest, and said, "What kind of thing is this? What's the point?"

Liu Qiaoshou didn't explain too much to her, and happily put the blueprint back into her arms, and said, "I told you that you don't understand, anyway, this blueprint is useful to me."

The woman disdained his mysterious appearance, "Didn't you say that this blueprint was given to you by that kid from the Qiao family? No matter how useful their things are to you, they are theirs."

Liu Qiao's eyes rolled quickly: "What do you know, as long as it's something I've seen once, it's mine, that's all, that's all, let's not talk, you go back to the house and rest, don't get tired my son."

As he said that, he brought the woman back to the house with support and hug, and went looking for things to study the drawings overjoyed.

Qiao Yu and Qiao Ling didn't go home directly. After shopping in West Street, they found a vase selling rough porcelain jars and bought five pickle jars.

The jar seller was an elderly man, who kept telling Qiao Yu how good his jars were, and that he sold jars here every day, and if he had any problems, he could come back to him.

Qiao Yu knocked on the surface of the jar, and the sound was clear and rich. Although it didn't look very good, the quality should be fine, so he paid for five.

The uncle saw that the two of them didn't look like workers, and asked with concern if there was a servant to pick them up. Qiao Yu thought, I can't even support myself, and I still have a servant.

But the uncle is not just worrying about it, the coarse porcelain vases are big and heavy, there are five in total, and Qiao Yu's two brothers only have four hands in total, and there is one vase left, so they can't put it on their heads.

Besides, with his and Qiao Ling's old, weak, sick and disabled physiques, one of them might not be able to bring them back.

After Qiao Yu gave it a try, he gave up. The uncle graciously offered his idea at the side, saying that he could put it here first, and then find a cart or something to pull it back.

Qiao Yu looked around and saw a carriage unloading outside a tavern at the intersection.

Qiao Yu patted Qiao Ling's hand and told him to stand here and wait, and come as he goes.

After finishing speaking, he gathered his collar and walked towards the tavern with a sigh of relief.

When I got closer, I realized that the carriage was full of wine. The small mud-sealed jars were stacked on the carriage one by one, and I could smell the fragrance of wine faintly. It was not unloading, but loading. .

"What are you doing, what are you doing so close?" A servant who was loading the goods immediately yelled when he saw someone approaching.

Qiao Yu saw that this posture was probably useless, so he didn't intend to ask any more questions, so he turned his head and said, "I'm sorry, I thought you were unloading the goods, and wanted to use the carriage to pull something for us."

When Qiao Yu's face smiled, it was really hard to be fierce. The servant's tone was a bit aggressive at first, but seeing Qiao Yu smiling at him kindly, his tone became more or less calm when he spoke again, and asked, "Aren't you Do you know whose carriage this is?"

Qiao Yu raised his head with a question mark, and looked at the carriage again. From the frame to the curtains, there was nothing special about it, but since this person said so, then the owner of this carriage must not be an ordinary person.

Qiao Yu changed his mind, and smiled at the servant again: "I'm really sorry, sorry for the trouble, I'll think of another way."

The servant replied: "Go and look elsewhere, I can't be the owner of this car."

Qiao Yu responded with a smile again, turned her head and walked back.

As soon as he left, a man who looked like a boy of seventeen or eighteen came out of the tavern, walked up to the servant and asked, "What did that man do here just now?"

He was obviously just a servant, but the servant's expression was very respectful, and he replied: "He said he wanted to borrow this carriage to help him transport some things, but he probably didn't recognize the carriage, so I returned it."

The little servant groaned, then turned his head to look at the back of the man who had gone far away, then turned around and went upstairs to answer the master.

"My lord, I just asked. He said he wanted to borrow a carriage to transport something for him. He is also stupid. He didn't even recognize the carriage in our house, so he dared to borrow it indiscriminately. He is quite courageous."

On the second floor of the tavern, by the window, sat a man who was tasting wine. The man's bony hands were holding a fine jade cup. took a look.

"Go, say you just happened to be on the way, and give him a ride."

The boy's eyes were wide open, then he turned around and asked cautiously, "Master, do you know this person?"

The man glanced at him over the wine glass: "What? Take care of me."

The little servant chuckled: "How dare you little one, you wait, sir, I'll send you back right away, I'm sure there's not even a single hair missing."

After saying that, he bowed and left, and ran and jumped downstairs to chase people.

Qiao Yu had already walked back to Qiao Ling. Seeing Qiao Ling looking over, she shook her head regretfully at him.

Qiao Ling didn't care, he thought for a while and said, "Then put one here first, and I'll come back and get it later."

The man who sold the jars immediately said: "You can put it here with me, I will show you well, there will be absolutely no problems."

Qiao Yu thought for a while, and it was the only way to go, and was about to nod, when suddenly there were a few crisp sounds of horseshoes behind her.

Qiao Yu looked back and saw that the carriage that had just stopped at the entrance of the tavern was now parked in front of him. The servant who had talked to him was still driving the carriage, but there was another person sitting next to him, wearing a servant's clothes, with dripping eyes Turning around like a ghost, after looking him up and down, he said: "Let's go, don't you need a carriage? It's just on the way, I can pick you up, come up, be careful with the wine in it, don't touch it." fall down."

Qiao Ling glanced at Qiao Yu, not knowing how to respond.

Qiao Yu smiled and asked: "Then thank you both first, but I am a little blind, and I didn't recognize which adult's frame it is, can you tell me, if the adult will do you a favor and see you later, I can also thank you one or two .”

The little servant giggled and said: "My father only said to send you back, but nothing else. I dare not talk too much. If I want to tell you, you will know in the future."

Qiao Yu made it clear, since people didn't want to talk about it and he didn't want to ask any more questions, but just now seeing the attitude of the servant, the owner of this car should be a respectable person, he asked himself that it is impossible to know such a person, It seemed that Qiao Ling didn't know who the visitor was, he was just curious, but he wasn't particularly worried, now that their house was completely empty, they weren't afraid that someone might have other plans.

After speaking, he opened the curtain behind the carriage, and together with Qiao Ling, he loaded the things into the carriage.

Sure enough, there was half a cart of mud-sealed wine jars stacked behind the carriage. When the curtain was lifted, the aroma of wine immediately overflowed. Qiao Yu took a deep breath and felt that the smell of this wine was quite familiar, but he couldn't remember where Qiao Yu smelled it. You must have smelled it outside someone's courtyard when you were walking around these days, Qiao Yu pondered for a moment, and stopped dwelling on this issue, let Qiao Ling sit in the carriage, and then followed him in.

"Okay, please give us a ride." Qiao Yu said.

With a sound of "drive" from the servant, the wheels of the carriage started to spun and walked towards the end of West Street.